REVEREND SUN MYUNG MOON
SPEAKS ON

TRUE PARENTS' DAY

March 25, 1982
World Mission Center
Translator - Bo Hi Pak

As you know, today is the 23rd Parents' Day. You have experienced
many new things since joining the Unification Church. and one of those
is Parents' Day. For those of you who are unmarried, Parents' Day may
seem like just another day, but for parents and grandparents this day
can be very meaningful.

It is not for secular reasons that we set aside such a day as
Parents' Day; it is centered upon God. Only from God's point of view in
providential history is this day significant. Celebration means to
return glory. There are many parents in today's world; many families
and nations and even the world could set up their own celebration days,
but for the history of God there are not many days that Heaven can
celebrate.

Imagine a celebration in which God and all mankind can take part.
There has been virtually no day in which all of God's children could
return joy and glory to Him. There has been no such day simply because
the first human ancestors brought the tragedy and sadness of the fall
to the earth. The creation was made for the glory of God, to praise the
name of the Creator, but that original purpose has never been
fulfilled.

There have been many secular celebrations where people sing and
celebrate, but many of these gatherings have only pierced God's heart,
not brought Him joy. God shed more tears at seeing these celebrations
and felt even more urgently the task of bringing the world back to its
original state. Whenever a new baby is born to a couple that is not
centered on God, God sees another soul to be restored, one more problem
that has been added to His burden. When young men and women who are
not centered on God get married, God sees more couples who have to be
restored. The restoration of just Adam and Eve was a great problem, but
now that they have become families, tribes, nations and a whole world,
God's problems have been greatly compounded.

Traditionally, when a new tribe or nation is born, great
celebration takes place, but from God's point of view it is only one
more problem in restoration. God sees fallen human history being
multiplied in this fashion, knowing that at the end evil must be judged
and restored. God cannot accept this world as it is.

From God's point of view, then, what must be the last days? The
last days are the time when the things God abhors most have become the
things that people love the most. When God and man have exactly
opposing viewpoints, that time must be the last days.

Springtime is the sowing season. Summer is the growing time, and
autumn is the time of harvest. when new fruit and seeds are formed.
Human history also moves through seasons. It was sown as a wrong seed,
planted through illicit love. In that wrong beginning there was
hatred. jealousy. conspiracy and corruption. All those things which
are foreign to God were contained in that seed of human history. so the
order and discipline of love were totally confused. Since the seed was
sown sinfully. the fruit will also be sinful; the time when that fruit
is borne is the last days. America is ahead of any other nation in
bearing the fruit of that fallen love.

America today is hardly an object of joy to God, but instead is a
target of God's wrath. This nation is plunging into self-destruction
and tragedy. The ideal of God is the creation of one God-centered man
and woman, who can unite and form the God-centered family, tribe,
nation and world. America has separated from that ideal, however, and
the reality today is that love relationships have no order or
standard. The most precious thing-love-is the most mixed up and
perverted thing. You can see mixed-up relationships every day in the
lives of people around you. There is no way that such a society could
have a means of meeting with God.

What is grieving the creation that God made? The creation is
seeking the original ideal home, wanting to live and prosper there. If
you ask anyone on the street whether he has parents with perfect love,
he will say no. He cannot say he has original brothers and sisters who
have perfect love either. Nor does he have the original relatives of
perfection, or an original world of perfect love.

This is the tragic reality which is giving misery to the Heart of
God every day. Mankind does not even know what condition they are in,
while Satan rejoices at God's suffering, taunting Him, "You will not
succeed, even though you say you are the almighty Creator. You are a
failure; I have won!"

Satan has many weapons, such as drugs and free sex, to immobilize
and kill young people. Whatever God likes, the devil hates. Billions of
people have become Satan's instruments, and they commit all kinds of
crimes. This situation is what we call the last days. At this time we
have to let people know clearly where they are. The moment for fire
and brimstone is here, so in the last moment how can we save mankind?

God is a God of love. not of wrath and judgment, so at this final
moment He must have some solution to prevent catastrophe. God must be
thinking of how to create some model or microcosm of a world with true
parents, true brothers and sisters, and a true society of perfect love
which the world can copy in order to be saved. God wants the whole
world to see that model. The fallen world is exactly the opposite, so
when that model world comes, the fallen world will want to destroy it.

How can we recognize that model which shows the original path for
the family, nation and world? That particular model must come in the
form of a religious movement. We will reap the fruit from the same tree
where God sowed the seeds of His central tradition. Therefore, the
model movement of the last days must have certain traditions which have
come from all the other religions, but especially Judaism and
Christianity.

No matter what Satan says, God wants to say that you are His
honorable, great, and beloved sons and daughters. When God can say that
you are honorable, He means that you have shown you are a person who
will not be shaken by any temptation or suffering. When God says that
you are great, He means that you give Him great hope because you have
confronted the satanic world and won the battle. I want to become the
first honorable and great and courageous son of God. That has always
been my determination.

Evil never automatically retreats: it must be defeated. Therefore
you must confront evil and defeat it in order to eliminate it. The
Unification Church today is truly on the final front line. The battle
today is the universal showdown between heaven and earth, between good
and evil, out of which the new mankind can be given birth.

As soon as I initiated this movement, every religion and government
came to oppose me. Every conceivable element of society came against
me, plus both ideologies of democracy and communism. From Satan's point
of view, I am the ultimate evil. People of all religions and all
countries are firing arrows at me. Arrows can fly silently and pierce
your heart when you aren't aware of them. I have been the target of
silent arrows coming from all over the world, at all times of the day
and night. Have I avoided these dirty tactics? No, I have deliberately
walked where more arrows can find me.

If I am totally exposed, who will defend me? The only reason I
could survive is that God defended me. God mobilized the universe to
protect me, and that is the only reason I am still alive. Wherever I
move, God's attention follows and the entire spirit world is
attentive. God cannot afford to see this ideology of True Parents
fail; it is God who declared an emergency. I want you to understand
that centered upon True Parents the entire spirit world has declared an
emergency.

Money is not our primary goal in fund raising; getting numbers of
people is not our basic goal in witnessing, either. We do home church
and fund raising in order to welcome God, to prepare a place where He
can dwell. Our crusade is meant to lay out a red carpet for God. There
has been no place for God to dwell in this world. So far I have
gathered money and people on every continent in order to welcome God.

Why should we dedicate our movement to this goal? God wants us to
prepare a dwelling place for Him on earth; we have to do that on every
continent. What a great job we have been called to do, and how proud we
are of doing it!

What is the reason we keep going? Why are we treated like
criminals? Why do you have to sell flowers and peanuts on the street?
The future of God and mankind is resting on our shoulders. Our work may
look trivial, but the purpose behind it is Divine. I want you to be
proud. One misstep by us will be an incredible disappointment to the
millions of people who have died for God's sake. We can only win.

I was young like you at one time. I was dynamic, and I could have
enjoyed my life. Instead I chose to become a outcast, to be the leader
of the Unification Church for the sake of God. I knew God's will and
His heart, and I could not take any other way but this one.

Communism is rampant in the world and no one has dared to confront
it; but we have fearlessly declared war on that ideology. I want you to
understand that no matter how corrupted the world is, conscience still
lives in people, and in time it will explode like an atomic bomb. Once
they taste true love, we have hope for the true restoration of the
world.

You are such beautiful young people, but ever since you began
following me you have encountered only one difficulty after another.
Sometimes you are in anguish and don't know what to do, and sometimes
you feel you just cannot continue doing this any more. Every one of you
has gone back and forth, up and down. But at the same time the entire
world is trembling. How steady are you?

I want to give you some instruction on this Parents' Day. Those who
feel that they love me but that this life is just too difficult for
them, please stand up. You can go out the door now and come back later
after everything is done. I am telling you now that I don't want anyone
here who will not be a positive element in this movement. I need the
kind of people who will join me and become like rocks, who want to
bring comfort and victory to God and salvation to mankind. We are well
underway, and our success is very near.

You should think that you will live at least until the day you can
inherit the true tradition of the Heavenly Kingdom and achieve God's
ideal. Until you consummate the ideal on the family level, tribal
level, national and world level, you should feel you cannot give up.
Unto my death I shall continue moving forward. How about you? The most
important thing about this celebration today will be if you can
recommit yourselves to the goal of becoming one with the True Parents
and establishing the true family, society, nation and world. That
commitment has one thousand times more value than any celebration.

It is the nature of young women to want to wear make-up and be
beautiful. If people see you with a plain face and humble clothes they
might automatically recognize that you are a Moonie. Every time you
hear that accusation, from God's point of view you are winning a
medal. Your many medals will be so heavy that you cannot walk very
well! Every cell of my body has been accused for being a Moonie, so
each of my cells has received a gold medal.

The world doesn't understand why I have the power to attract so
many young people, for I look like any, ordinary man. Even in the
secular world everyone still has an original mind, which is like a
magnet to pull each person to God's side. That is the most natural
attraction of true love between you and True Parents. Do you want me
to chase you out so you can get gold medals, or encourage you to live
an easy life? You are greedy for medals! What beautiful people you
are!

You must realize the true meaning of this day and of the True
Parents, plus the true meaning of your life. You are here for the
salvation of America. Millions of people are dying spiritually every
day; if you can't feel this while you are out in the world then you
are dead inside. You need to really give yourself for the salvation of
this society; that must be your dedication today. How much more
should you do for the salvation of your own country than other members
are doing for the communist nations, enemies of this country?

Do you think America has a future if it continues on its present
course? This giant country is spiritually paralyzed. You must become
the blood and muscle and nervous system of this nation so that it can
move again. You should want to give every drop of your blood for this
nation, even if your time of joyful youth passes away. Some members
are speculating about when the next Blessing will come, but what kind
of Blessing do you want when this nation and world are crumbling? You
will really have a blessing when you save the nation and world.

The right frame of mind to have is a fervent desire to save this
nation and world and God. The Blessing is not for your own sake but
for your posterity. We shall fulfill that also, but today what
blessing do you want when the world is dying? Revolutionize your way
of thinking at this moment. Love your country as much as you love your
fiancé. As much as you love the True Parents, love your nation
and the world. That is the most honorable teaching. This is the core
of my teaching to you. Anyone who urges you to live like that must be
a true leader.

Today we are celebrating True Parents' Day. Our determination is
to center upon the True Parents and to give our lives so that all
mankind shall see a day of hope and can rejoice with God and True
Parents. That's how I have lived my entire life, sacrificing my family
for the nation, sacrificing the nation for the world' and the world
for the cosmos.

When I arrived in this country in 1971, I came with the
determination to lay out a red carpet for God here. During my first
visit here in 1965, I drove to every state in the nation in forty days
to dedicate holy grounds. The driver took time to doze, but I loved
this country so much that every second of the day was precious and I
could hardly sleep at all.

I knew that America is a microcosm of the entire world, so by
loving this country I wanted to love the entire world. I never thought
in terms of America or Korea; I only noticed who were the God-loving
people. If Your mission now is difficult, how much more difficult was
my mission? To reach the ideal I had to go through persecution and
tribulation; that has been my path. I knew that, because I was going
forward with that motivation, America would have to be turned upside
down. I am showing who is the true patriot, who is loving this country
and people the most.

Throughout America's history, God has been blessing this nation.
That blessing should be consummated centering on God and for that job
I came to America. My first mission has been to defend this nation
from satanic attack by communism. From a righteous point of view, I
have given more to this country than anyone.

Because I know historical principles so well, I do not want to go
anywhere without laying a firm foundation in America. I want to win
the battle here first in order to prevent historical tragedy. I know
exactly the path a man of God must walk, and that's why I am going
this way. All our four holidays are symbolic of the restoration
history of God. On every level we have to vindicate God on earth.

I am sending you out to bear your own fruit in home church. The
worst wars in history began with tribal wars; so unless we indemnify
tribal war, we cannot indemnify national war Therefore' you are doing
this in home church. By setting up your Cain-type home church and
later your Abel type home church, you can bring them together; then
the ideal shall become reality. This applies to black, white and
yellow alike. Of Noah's three sons, two could not fulfill me
dispensation. Shem represented the yellow race, Ham the black race,
and Japheth the Occidentals. Shem and Ham could not fulfill their
dispensational roles at the time, so Japheth took their place. This
was only because of his dispensational position, not because of his
individual qualities.

White people should love black people, and both should love yellow
people. All races must love each other; otherwise' racial war is
inevitable, and white people would suffer the most as a result. I am
determined to prevent racial war. Communism is behind the scenes
pushing for global racial conflict. but we are trying to unite the
races. This is why our work is going strong in South America and
Africa. Who will do that unless we do it? Other Christian churches?
Other religions? Many churches today are too self-centered to actively
promote racial harmony. I have undertaken this most difficult job.
When I first came to America, I prophesied what would happen to this
nation and all of it has come true.

When people accuse you for being a Moonie, you can tell them that
you are giving your tears and sweat for God and mankind, and demand to
know if that is a crime. I am telling you today to have patience and
persevere by thinking of God and mankind. When Jesus was on earth, he
trod exactly the same path; this is the tradition all of us have
inherited. When you reach out to mankind in desolate places, you can
have power by remembering how I endured when America persecuted me.
When black people persecute you white members, you can have power to
endure. When white people persecute you black members. you will be able
to continue.

When American members go to other countries and do exactly what I
have done here, you will be persecuted and misunderstood. But you will
have power to persevere by remembering that when people persecuted me I
loved America to the end. You can demonstrate the same way of life.
That is the true way of salvation.

Today I conclude by saying that after enjoying this celebration we
must recommit ourselves to the Divine call in which God delights, in
which True Parents delight, and in which the nation and all mankind can
delight. Are you ready to go this way? Will I get to the goal first, or
will you? I want you to be the winners; that will give the greatest
hope to this country. If you are more sacrificial you will win,
indeed.